On 14/05/13 21:50, Tony Langdon wrote: > On 14/05/13 7:53 PM, Russell Coker wrote: >> Has anyone here had problems with flash drives? I haven't. The only read >> errors I recall are the ones from when I used USB flash devices for the root >> and /var/cache/squid filesystems. > I had one flash drive that died after very little use, only one that's > done that. It wasn't used for anything particularly stressful, just > storage and copying of files, not swap or anything frequently writing > like that.
I've had a couple of usb drives go bad. They had some use, but mostly reads, not many write cycles. I tend to use btrfs on usb media now too since it picks up otherwise-silent corruption on these things. _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
